LBT ID: RoAllen1805 | B/BAP: 1772-10-18 DIED: 1805-01-30 |
SOURCES: Alumni Oxonieses; Gentleman's Magazine (February 1805) 107; E. V. Lucas, Works of Charles Lamb (1903-05); Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983) | |
Educated at Christ's Hospital with Coleridge and Lamb, and at University College, Oxford,
he wrote for the Oracle and other newspapers before taking an MD and
working as an army surgeon. | |